Senior Executive Officer
Head of Tenant Leasing Business
Kazuma Hirata

Kazuma Hirata is a Senior Executive Officer and the Head of Tenant Leasing Business. When he was thirty years old, he fulfilled a long-cherished dream and built his own home. Having gained a sense of accomplishment, he then wanted to find a new job. While he was job hunting, he discovered that Don Quijote was recruiting; of 34 applicants, he alone passed with flying colors (so says the person in charge of recruitment at the time), and so he joined Don Quijote Co., Ltd. (now PPIH) in 1998. Before joining the company, he was simultaneously managing a restaurant and working as an automobile technician; he used Don Quijote often, and the catalyst for his application was a sense that the store looked interesting.
He started out as the person responsible for food products in the Kisarazu store, and from 2005 served as the general manager of the Kanto branch, followed by the Saikyo branch, and then the Kyushu and Okinawa branches. Based on the idea that the customer matters most, he has taken to heart the concept that everyone--customers, partners, supervisors, subordinates, and family--are made up of human connections, so he never forgets the customer's perspective, feelings, or mental state, and rather than scold his subordinates for something small that they cannot do, he tries to praise them first for something small that they were able to do.
He has served as an executive officer and the president of our tenant leasing business company since July 2020, and in these roles he is in charge of our tenant leasing business and works as the president of Japan Commercial Establishment Co., Ltd. He simultaneously holds the position of president & representative director of Airline Hotel Co., Ltd. When Mr. Hirata acts, he keeps in mind the idea that the PPIH Group's unchanging spirit of The Source will be handed down and embodied in the next generation, based on the concept that "compromise is our greatest enemy, but, more than this, not taking on challenges is the greatest violation of The Source."

His favorite, most-quoted parts of The Source are Ten Precepts Relating to Employee Mindset and Conduct no. 5: "Make others the subject of the sentence so you can talk from their perspective," and no. 9. "Rather than list all the reasons you can't do something, think long and hard about how you make it possible."